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How the Internet Works
Sarah Wenger & Staff – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Oct 2012
Infographic – Engineering the Internet. The Internet is amazing. It allows us to communicate instantly, search for and find information on nearly anything, stay abreast of current events and, of course, watch the latest cute animal video. But how does it actually work?
→ read full articleTransCanada Transforms Tar Sands Blockade Area into Police State
Kevin Gosztola, The Dissenter – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Oct 2012
Enlisted off-duty police officers are intimidating, harassing and arresting just about anyone they think is trespassing, even if those people happen to be on property they own. And, officers who are acting as armed henchmen for TransCanada have arrested three journalists in the past twenty-four hours for simply being there to report on resistance to the pipeline construction.
→ read full articleA Happy War
Tom Greening – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Oct 2012
Pacifism’s such a bore—
I’m going to design a war
The Muslim Diaspora in Europe and the USA
Johan Galtung et al* - TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Oct 2012
By far the tallest diaspora in the world is Muslim: about 300 million, of them 177 M in India, 19 M in EU, 23 M in China, 16 M in Russia, and 2.6 M in the USA. This paper is about the Muslim social situation in two of the six poles: Europe and the USA.
→ read full articleInternational Peace Bureau Critical of Nobel Peace Prize for the European Union
International Peace Bureau, Nobel Peace Laureate (1910) – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Oct 2012
The IPB finds the award of the 2012 Nobel Peace Prize to the European Union surprising in that it awards a prize not to a head of state but to an entire bloc of states, thus making it difficult to identify the real recipient. Is the EU really a ‘champion of peace’, as Nobel conceived it? Or is it a club of states with many contradictory impulses and interests?
→ read full articleNYPD Concern about ‘Iran Terror’ Should Put U.S. Security on Alert
Maidhc Ó Cathail, The Passionate Attachment – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Oct 2012
On September 25 [2012], The Passionate Attachment broke the story of the Israel lobbyist who suggested that a Pearl Harbor-type attack might be necessary to get a recalcitrant Obama Administration to go to war with Iran. In light of Clawson’s thinly-veiled call for a false flag attack to trigger another Middle East war for Israel, a story in yesterday’s [10 Oct 2012] New York Post entitled “NYPD on alert for Iran terror” should be of major concern to those charged with protecting U.S. national security.
→ read full articleAbuse of Power: Criminal Assault on Humanity
Charles Mercieca, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Oct 2012
One of the worst crimes in human experience is termed to be abuse of power. Those in power of any kind have the opportunity to elevate those around them to a higher level of existence making their lives enjoyable and peaceful, or to sink them to a state of frustration, desolation and suffering.
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Secret of the Seven Sisters (Shell, Exxon, BP, Mobil, Chevron, Gulf, Texaco) – Desert Storms and Fortunes (1/4)
Sunset Presse, French TV – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Oct 2012
MUST WATCH Documentary: The Shameful Story of Oil – Exposing the Oil Cartel – Part 1 of 4
Legendado em Portugues
Secret of the Seven Sisters (Shell, Exxon, BP, Mobil, Chevron, Gulf, Texaco) – Safari in a Black Eldorado (2/4)
Sunset Presse, French TV – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Oct 2012
The Shameful Story of Oil – Exposing the Oil Cartel – Part 2 of 4
Legendado em Portugues
Secret of the Seven Sisters (Shell, Exxon, BP, Mobil, Chevron, Gulf, Texaco) – The Dancing Bear (3/4)
Sunset Presse, French TV – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Oct 2012
The Shameful Story of Oil – Exposing the Oil Cartel – Part 3 of 4
Legendado em Portugues
Secret of the Seven Sisters (Shell, Exxon, BP, Mobil, Chevron, Gulf, Texaco) – A Time for Lies (4/4)
Sunset Presse, French TV – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Oct 2012
The Shameful Story of Oil – Exposing the Oil Cartel – Part 4 of 4
Legendado em Portugues
Sociocide, Palestine and Israel
Johan Galtung - TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Oct 2012
Testimony for Russell Tribunal on Palestine – NYC, 7 Oct 2012 – Sociocide is a new concept that has not found its place in positive international law. Like Genocide and Ecocide, Sociocide, the killing of a society’s capacity to survive and to reproduce itself, should become equally and prominently a crime against humanity. A society is a self-reproducing social system. Is Palestine the victim of sociocide by Israel? Indeed!
→ read full articleIceland’s Economy Now Growing Faster Than the U.S. And EU after Arresting Corrupt Bankers
American Live Wire – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Oct 2012
Iceland didn’t follow the rest of the world by bailing out bankers. Surprisingly, they arrested them instead. Now their economy is recovering faster than the EU and the United States.
→ read full articleConsiderable Conglomeration of “Cons” of Global Concern
Anthony Judge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Oct 2012
Eightfold Constraint on Constructive Conflict Control? In these strange times there would seem to be a strange preponderance of ways in which problematic conditions are articulated through use of words prefixed by “con”. There is therefore a case for exploring these phenomena more systematically. This is done here by clustering words of that form which are used with greatest frequency. The approach is to endeavour to isolate clusters which are especially important to processes of governance — or to concerns regarding the efficacy of that governance.
→ read full articleBradley Manning Trial: A Mockery of Justice
Nathan Fuller – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Oct 2012
Bradley Manning’s lawyer, David Coombs, has filed a 117-page motion calling for the dismissal of all charges with prejudice, for lack of a speedy trial. When he argues the motion at Ft. Meade, October 29 – November 2, Bradley will have been in pretrial confinement for nearly 900 days.
→ read full articleCritical Psychology: Critical Links
Prof. Ian Parker – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Oct 2012
We must take seriously any and every critique of psychology, any and every challenge to ideology and power, for it is only on that basis that we will be able to link the variety of radical activities inside and outside, in and against the discipline and to construct a field of debate where different theoretical positions and practical initiatives can be developed, discussed and elaborated. Critical activity cannot be carried out by individuals working independently, and that is why critical psychologists need their own institutions.
→ read full articleBhutan Aims To Be First 100% Organic Nation
Agence France Presse (AFP) – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Oct 2012
The Himalayan kingdom of Bhutan, famed for seeking “happiness” for its citizens, is aiming to become the first nation in the world to turn its home-grown food and farmers 100 percent organic. The tiny Buddhist-majority nation wedged between China and India has an unusual and some say enviable approach to economic development, centred on protecting the environment and focusing on mental well-being.
→ read full articleEinstein’s Letter to ‘Stern Gang Terrorists’
Deir Yassin Remembered – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Oct 2012
Prior to the creation of the State of Israel, two Jewish terrorist groups were working to cleanse Palestine of its Arab inhabitants and its British occupiers. The more brutal of these groups was Lohamei Herut Yisrael (Fighters for the Freedom of Israel) also known as the LEHI or the Stern Gang after its founder Avraham Stern.
→ read full article(Castellano) Experiodista de CNN Denuncia Reportajes Manipulados en Favor de Bahréin
TeleSur – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Oct 2012
La exreportera de CNN Amber Lyon aseguró que CNN se encuentra bajo una fuerte presión a la hora de criticar lo que sucede en Arabia Saudita y Bahréin, mientras se demoniza a Irán y Siria a cualquier hora del día.
→ read full articleStudy: The Effects of Weaponized Radiation – Health Effects of Radioactive Materials (1945-1970)
Lisa MartinoTaylor, Ph.D., University of Missouri-Columbia - TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Oct 2012
Abstract: This piece analyzes a covert Manhattan Project spin-off organization referred to here as the Manhattan-Rochester Coalition, and an obscure aerosol study in St. Louis, Missouri, conducted under contract by the U.S. military from 1953–1954, and 1963–1965. The military-sponsored studies targeted a segregated, high-density urban area, where low-income persons of color predominantly resided.
→ read full article(French) La méfiance règne dans l’industrie pharmaceutique
EurActiv – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Oct 2012
Le système des soins de santé européen a des difficultés à gérer le manque de transparence et de confiance dans le secteur pharmaceutique, d’après 97 % des médecins, professionnels du secteur et décideurs politiques présents hier (4 octobre 2012) au Gastein Health Forum. « La Corée du Nord serait fière de vous ! », a déclaré le modérateur de l’atelier, John Bowis.
→ read full articleBut What of Truth
Hal O’Leary – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Oct 2012
Poetry can often achieve the same communication with far fewer words than prose. This poem sums it up.
→ read full articleConstruction versus Destruction
John Scales Avery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Oct 2012
It is easier to burn down a house than to build one, easier to kill a human than to raise and educate one, easier to force a species into extinction than to replace it once it is gone, easier to burn the Great Library of Alexandria than to accumulate the knowledge that once filled it, and easier to destroy a civilization in a thermonuclear war than to rebuild it from the radioactive ashes.
→ read full articleMistrust Puts Pharmaceutical Industry in the Spotlight
EurActiv – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Oct 2012
The European healthcare system is struggling to cope with low levels of transparency and trust in the pharmaceutical sector, according to 97% of doctors, industry professionals and policymakers attending a workshop at the Gastein Health Forum yesterday (4 October 2012). “North Korea would be proud of you!” said workshop moderator John Bowis, a former MEP.
→ read full articleIraq: Ten Years, a Million Lives and Trillions of Dollars Later
Dennis Kucinich – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Oct 2012
Ten years ago today [2 Oct 2012] the debate over the Iraq War came to Congress in the form of a resolution promoted by the Bush Administration. The war in Iraq will cost the United States as much as $5 trillion. It played a role in spurring the global financial crisis. Four thousand, four hundred, eighty eight Americans were killed. More than 33,000 were injured. As many as 1,000,000 innocent Iraqi civilians were killed. The monetary cost of the war to Iraq is incalculable. A sectarian civil war has ravaged Iraq for nearly a decade. Iraq has become home to Al Qaeda.
→ read full article10 October: Abolition of the Death Penalty
Rene Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Oct 2012
10 October is the International Day against the Death Penalty, set by the United Nations General Assembly. Since the end of World War II, there has been a gradual abolition of the death penalty with the rather obvious recognition that death is not justice. In some countries, executions have been suspended in practice but laws allowing executions remain; in other cases there has been a legal abolition.
→ read full articleDrone Warfare: Obama’s Idea of a “Just War”
Drone Wars UK – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Oct 2012
This is an edited version of an article by US Catholic theologians Tobias L. Winright and Mark J. Allman that first appeared in the 18th August 2012 edition of the international Catholic weekly, The Tablet, as ‘Obama’s drone wars: a case to answer.
→ read full articleHow the Government’s Lies Become Truth
Paul Craig Roberts – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Oct 2012
In my last column, “A Culture of Delusion,” I wrote that “Americans live in a matrix of lies. Lies dominate every policy discussion, every political decision.” This column will use two top news stories, Iranian nukes and Julian Assange, to illustrate how lies become “truth.”
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There She Goes Again: Hillary Clinton Laughs about Possible War against Iran
LiveLeak – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Oct 2012
Remember the ‘We Came, We Saw, He Died’ Gaddafi affair? She is at it again! Hillary Clinton (while laughing about it) and James Baker discuss the prospect of war with Iran while suggesting that the United States of America needs to instigate the war with a false flag attack.
→ read full articleThe ‘Koodankulam’ Conflict Map
S.P. Udayakumar, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Oct 2012
Mapping the Conflict – A Graphic Representation
→ read full articleSpeaking out against Prof. Ian Parker’s Suspension
China Mills – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Oct 2012
Prof. Ian Parker has been suspended from Manchester Metropolitan University, UK. He had raised concerns within the university about the problem of secrecy and control in the department and was suspended for doing so. Ian helped to set up the principle aims of ‘Psychology, Politics, Resistance’ in 1994 to oppose the abusive uses and oppressive consequences of psychology, to support individuals to challenge exploitation, to develop a collective active opposition to oppression, and to make this a key element in the education of all psychologists.
→ read full articleOf Bombs and Comics
Uri Avnery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Oct 2012
My first reaction to Binyamin Netanyahu’s exhibition of comics at the UN General Assembly was shame. Shame that the supreme elected representative of my country would stoop to such a primitive rhetorical device, bordering on the childish. (One Israeli commentator suggested putting him on a rug with a lot of paper and Indian ink, and letting him play to his heart’s content.)
→ read full article‘The American Dream Has Become a Myth’
Der Spiegel – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Oct 2012
The finance industry is to blame for the growing divide between the rich and poor in the United States, says Nobel Prize-winning economics professor Joseph Stiglitz. In an interview with SPIEGEL, he accuses the industry of preying on the poor and buying government policies that help them get richer.
→ read full articleBurma/Myanmar: Did the Government Incite the Racial Violence Targeting the Rohingya?
Dr. Maung Zarni – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Oct 2012
Truthful reports by various inquiry commissions and missions can and will go a long way towards restoring a glimmer of hope in the world’s most persecuted minority community, if the investigators are able to get to the bottom of the recent large-scale racial violence, which left nearly 100,000 both homeless and hopeless.
→ read full articleArendt and Einstein Warned of ‘Fascism’ Rising in Israel 60 Years Ago
Philip Weiss, MondoWeiss – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Oct 2012
Among the most disturbing political phenomena of our times is the emergence in the newly created state of Israel of the “Freedom Party” (Tnuat Haherut), a political party closely akin in its organization, methods, political philosophy and social appeal to the Nazi and Fascist parties. It was formed out of the membership and following of the former Irgun Zvai Leumi, a terrorist, right-wing, chauvinist organization in Palestine.
→ read full articleInk of Failed Conscience
Udaya R. Tennakoon – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Oct 2012
Once up on a time
Among some other men and women
Called human rights activists…
California Law Bans Gay Teen ‘Conversion’ Therapy
Associated Press (AP) – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Oct 2012
California has become the first state to ban a controversial form of psychotherapy aimed at making gay teenagers straight.
→ read full article‘Suppliers of Arms to Opposition Want to Destroy the Syrian People’ – Iraqi PM
Russia Today – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Oct 2012
States that send arms to Syria face upheavals and unrest due to sectarian violence, their stability will be in jeopardy and the state of affairs will be no better than in Syria, warned Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri Al-Maliki in an interview to RT [5 Oct 2012]. “He who starts a fire will be destroyed by fire in the end,” Al-Maliki stated, predicting that sponsorship of the Syrian opposition will backfire on supporting states.
→ read full articleThe Life and Death of an Australian Hero, Whose Skin Was The Wrong Colour
John Pilger –TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Oct 2012
I first met Arthur a generation ago and knew he was the best kind of trouble. He objected to the cruelty and hypocrisy of white society in a country where his people had lived longer than human beings had lived anywhere.
→ read full articleThe Era of Conventional Wars is Over
Charles Mercieca, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Oct 2012
Over the past 65 years this has been evidenced with tangible clarity. The only tragedy lies here. The so called super powers cannot see it and cannot accept it. They keep on wasting money and energy on something that is now a fiction of their imagination.
→ read full articlePrerequisites to Planetary Peace: A Nonkilling Checklist
Francisco Gomes de Matos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Oct 2012
In a critical perspective, all current political systems would be taught
Their peace-nonviolence-nonkilling common denominators would be sought
How to Kill a Democracy
S. P. Udayakumar – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Oct 2012
Anoint a colonized World Bank clerk as the Chief Executive with American blessings
And have him dance to imperial tunes and MNC notes with Swadeshi songs and swings.
Include all the rogues, rascals and rowdies as coalition partners and co-conspirators;
Make “Loot and Let Loot” the philosophy of governance and principle of administration.
Has Capitalism Lost Its Compass? APEC Panel (Part 1)
Peter Lavelle, Russia Today – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Oct 2012
Has capitalism lost its compass? How should capitalism be defined? How flawed is the system and could it still be revived? And is there any real alternative to capitalism? These issues are discussed with distinguished panelists at the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation 2012 summit held in Vladivostok.
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Has Capitalism Lost Its Compass? APEC Panel (Part 2)
Peter Lavelle, Russia Today – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Oct 2012
Jim Rogers and Artyom Volynets are there to defend capitalism in its modern form, while Chandran Nair and Frank-Jurgen Richter are arguing that capitalism has indeed lost its compass.
→ read full article(Castellano) Cancilleres Inauguran Cumbre “América del Sur-Países Árabes” en Perú
TeleSur – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Oct 2012
El Gobierno peruano informó, a través de una comunicado, que los cancilleres tendrán dos sesiones de trabajo para terminar de concertar la Declaración de Lima, texto final del encuentro que firmarán los jefes de Estado y de Gobierno el día martes [2 Octubre 2012].
→ read full articleAt Milestone, US Military Deaths Dwarfed by Afghans Killed
Common Dreams – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Oct 2012
As 2,000th American soldier killed in Afghanistan makes headlines, estimates put Afghan civilian dead at over 20,000.
→ read full articleScientists: No to Genetically Modified Crops, Yes to Paradigm Shift
Common Dreams – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Oct 2012
A group of scientists said that ecological farming and a shift towards a holistic paradigm, not genetically modified (GM) crops, are the answer for India’s future agricultural needs. The scientists made their statements in New Delhi at a media briefing organized by Aruna Rodrigues, lead petitioner in a public interest litigation seeking a moratorium on GM testing in India, the Times of India reports.
→ read full articleLetter from Japanese Anti Nuclear Activists to Tamil Nadu Residents
No Nukes Asia Forum Japan – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Oct 2012
A Historic movement is underway in Tamil Nadu-India, against Koodankulam nuclear power station. People across the world are moved by the resistance and want to express solidarity. We tried to visit India to show our solidarity on September 25, 2012 but were denied access at Chennai airport. After an hour-long interrogation, we had our papers written as “Inadmissible persons”, which denied our entrance to India.
→ read full articleIn Quest of a Dynamic Pattern of Transformations
Anthony Judge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Oct 2012
The assumption is that greater understanding of transformation in generic terms, as a complex of processes, would enable and sustain new forms of development — especially for the individual in times of crisis. The approach takes its inspiration from the argument of Albert Einstein: “The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them.”
→ read full articleAsylum Seeking Not Criminal – UNHCR
Africa news – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Oct 2012
The Office of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees has said the seeking of asylum is not a criminal act and those who seek it should not be detained. In a statement issued in New York on Sunday [23 Sep 2012], it also called on all states to seek out alternatives to detention when dealing with migrants and refugees.
→ read full articleAssange to UN: ‘It is time for the US to cease its persecution of WikiLeaks’
Russia Today – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Oct 2012
27 Sep 2012 – WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has called on the United States to move from words to actions, and put an end to its persecution of WikiLeaks, its people and its sources. He made the statement during an address to a panel of UN delegates.
→ read full articleFreedom of Expression = Freedom to Insult?
Johan Galtung - TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Oct 2012
There are two key human rights values in this confrontation:
freedom of expression–basic, but not the only value in the world;
freedom from insult and respect for the sacred–basic, but not alone.
Conflicts between two values generally have five outcomes:
The Top 5 Herbs for Controlling Mood Swings
Dr. Edward F. Group, Global Healing Center – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Oct 2012
Whether you have a short temper or just can’t seem to optimize your mental clarity, mood swings and emotional distress can be a serious situation to deal with. Thankfully, a number of herbs can assist you in your fight against mood swings and emotional distress.
→ read full articleSyrian Stalemate: Late in the Day – Are Negotiations Still Possible?
Rene Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Oct 2012
Paulo S. Pinheiro said that the escalating conflict in which civilians bear the brunt of the killed and wounded now has an increasing presence of “foreign elements”. Some have joined anti-government forces and some operate independently. Pinheiro, who has long experience in UN human rights efforts, went on to add that such foreign elements “tend to push anti-government fighters toward more radical positions.”
→ read full articleRighteousness versus Expediency
Charles Mercieca, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Oct 2012
Waging wars is never right. They cannot be waged on the assumption of “righteousness.” The only alternative left for such heinous acts is “expediency” that would make the rich become richer and the poor become poorer and fully miserable if they were to survive.
→ read full articleMemo to UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon: The Door on a Two-State Solution Was Closed 45 Years Ago
Alan Hart – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Oct 2012
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon told the General Assembly at the start of this week [27 Sep 2012] that “the door may be closing for good on a two-state solution to the Israel-Palestine conflict.” The truth of history, which most if not all world leaders know but dare not state, is that the door Ban Ki-moon sees closing, was actually slammed shut 45 years ago. The precise date of the closure was 22 November 1967. What happened on that day?
→ read full articleMichael Sinan, Mr. Gay Denmark 2012, On Being Out and Proud As a Muslim
Huffington Post – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Oct 2012
Mr. Gay Denmark, who is also Muslim, says “it’s not easy, but it’s certainly easier” for him than it is for fellow immigrants who must live with a sexual orientation that fits with neither their religious principles nor their families’ values.
→ read full articleUS Conducts New Type of Nuclear Test Using Intense X-Ray Beams
Xinhua News Agency – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Oct 2012
Japan’s southwestern city of Nagasaki expressed its outrage and protest against a new type of nuclear test conducted for the sixth time in August [2012] by the United States, local press reported on Tuesday [25 Sep 2012]. The report said that the United States conducted the nuclear test, which simulated a nuclear blast using intense X-ray beams and checked how plutonium would react, at the Sandia National Laboratories in New Mexico on August 27 [2012].
→ read full articleTRANSCENDING Multidimensionally: A rhymed reflection
Francisco Gomes de Matos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Oct 2012
What will happen when politically all Humankind transcend?
To more dignifying political systems we will ascend
A Culture of Delusion
Paul Craig Roberts – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Oct 2012
A writer’s greatest disappointments are readers who have knee-jerk responses. Not all readers, of course. Some readers are thoughtful and supportive. Others express thanks for opening their eyes. But the majority are happy when a writer tells them what they want to hear and are unhappy when he writes what they don’t want to hear.
→ read full articleApollo’s Curse and Climate Change
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Oct 2012
The sad story of Cassandra is suggestive of the dilemma confronting the climate change scientific community. In modern civilization, interpreting scientific evidence and projecting trends, is as close to trustworthy prophesy as this civilization is likely to get. The culture is supposed to place its highest trust in the scientific community as the voice of reason, and modernity is largely understood as allowing scientific truth and instrumental reason to supersede superstition and religious revelation.
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(Castellano) Entrevista al Dr. Johan Galtung (25 de septiembre de 2012) – Mexico
solorzanoenultra – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Oct 2012
Javier Solórzano entrevista con el Dr. Johan Galtung, premio nobel de la paz alternativo, sobre la cultura por la paz.
→ read full article(Portuguese) Computadores Alugados Fotografaram Secretamente Usuários Fazendo Sexo
BBC Brasil – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Oct 2012
Uma investigação feita por autoridades americanas com sete companhias que alugam computadores nos Estados Unidos revelou que diversas das máquinas registraram secretamente fotos de seus clientes, alguns deles durante atos sexuais.
→ read full articleReuters and Ahmadinejad: Anatomy of a Dangerous Misquote
News Vandal – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Oct 2012
Today [25 Sep 2012], Reuters rolled out a headline: In New York, defiant Ahmadinejad says Israel will be “eliminated.” Ahmadinejad’s quote in paragraph eleven comes across a bit differently: “We don’t even count them as any part of any equation for Iran. During a historical phase, they (the Israelis) represent minimal disturbances that come into the picture and are then eliminated.” A few words are not the only thing that might get lost in translation. How unfortunate it would be if tens of thousands of lives were lost as well.
→ read full articleIran: Automatic Escalation to World War III?
John Scales Avery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Oct 2012
A few days ago Brigadier General Amir Ali Hajizadeh , who is in charge of the Revolutionary Guards missile systems told that Iran would deem any Israeli strike to be conducted with US authorisation, so “whether the Zionist regime attacks with or without US knowledge, then we will definitely attack US bases in Bahrain, Qatar and Afghanistan.” US leaders would then be forced to respond despite the danger that Russia, China and Pakistan would be drawn into the conflict on the side of Iran.
→ read full articleReviving My Blog after China
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Oct 2012
While in China the media was dominated by the intense Chinese reaction to the Japanese government decision to purchase the Daioyu Islands (called Senkaku Islands by Japan) from private Japanese owners, which was interpreted as a provocative step toward implementing Japanese disputed sovereignty claims.
→ read full articleFormer US President Carter: Venezuelan Electoral System “Best in the World”
Ewan Robertson, Venezuelanalysis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Oct 2012
Speaking at an annual event last week [16 Sep 2012] in Atlanta for his Carter Centre foundation, the politician-turned philanthropist stated, “As a matter of fact, of the 92 elections that we’ve monitored, I would say the election process in Venezuela is the best in the world.”
→ read full articleIsrael Lobbyist Hints That ‘Pearl Harbor’ May Be Needed To Get US into War with Iran
Maidhc Ó Cathail, The Passionate Attachment – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Oct 2012
Intriguingly, he went on to recount a series of controversial incidents in American history — the attack on Pearl Harbor, the sinking of the Lusitania, the Gulf of Tonkin incident, and the blowing up of the USS Maine — that US presidents “had to wait for” before taking America to war.
→ read full articleLiving Under Drones: Death, Injury and Trauma to Civilians from US Drone Practices in Pakistan
Stanford and New York Universities – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Oct 2012
This report is the result of nine months of research by the International Human Rights and Conflict Resolution Clinic of Stanford Law School (Stanford Clinic) and the Global Justice Clinic at New York University School of Law (NYU Clinic).
→ read full article(Portuguese) Ratos Alimentados Com Transgênico Morrem Mais Cedo e Sofrem Mais de Câncer
Daniele Silveira, Radioagência NP – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Sep 2012
Pesquisa realizada com 200 ratos alimentados com milho geneticamente modificado apontou que esses animais morrem mais cedo e sofrem de câncer com mais freqüência. O estudo foi publicado nesta quarta-feira (19 Set 2012) pela revista científica “Food and Chemical Toxicology”.
→ read full articleMEK Delisting is a Gift to the Regime, a Disaster for the Iranian People and the U.S.
National Iranian American Council – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Sep 2012
The National Iranian American Council (NIAC) deplores the decision to remove the Mujahedin-e Khalq (MEK) from the U.S. list of foreign terrorist organizations. The decision opens the door to Congressional funding of the MEK to conduct terrorist attacks in Iran, makes war with Iran far more likely, and will seriously damage Iran’s peaceful pro-democracy movement as well as America’s standing among ordinary Iranians.
→ read full articleCracking Your PIN Code: Easy as 1-2-3-4
Lisa Scherzer, Yahoo! Finance - TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Sep 2012
If you lost your ATM card on the street, how easy would it be for someone to correctly guess your PIN and proceed to clean out your savings account? Not long, according to data scientist, Nick Berry, founder of Data Genetics, a Seattle technology consultancy.
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Jesse Ventura on Piers Morgan (VIDEO OF THE WEEK)
CNN – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Sep 2012
Sept. 17, 2012 – Full Interview, CNN
→ read full articleBarcelona Manifesto for Peace
Fundación Carta de la Paz – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Sep 2012
September 21, 2012 – International Day for Peace. On the occasion of the First International Congress on Building Peace in the 21st Century held in Barcelona from 23rd-25th April 2012, the organising committee recognises the contributions, presentations, papers and pre-congress preparatory work and offers the following manifesto:
→ read full articleBlood for Oil
John Scales Avery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Sep 2012
“Modern warfare particularly depends on oil, because virtually all weapons systems rely on oil-based fuel – tanks, trucks, armored vehicles, self-propelled artillery pieces, airplanes, and naval ships. For this reason, the governments and general staffs of powerful nations seek to ensure a steady supply of oil during wartime, to fuel oil-hungry military forces in far-flung operational theaters.”
→ read full articleMyths about Industrial Agriculture
Prof. Vandana Shiva – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Sep 2012
Reports trying to create doubts about organic agriculture are suddenly flooding the media. The food revolution is the biggest revolution of our times, and the industry is panicking. So it spins propaganda, hoping that in the footsteps of Goebbels, a lie told a hundred times will become the truth. But food is different.
→ read full articleVirus
Tom Greening – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Sep 2012
Our species coughs and wheezes,
and we can barely help each other.
The immunization shots
provided by religions
didn’t work, or made us sicker.
(Castellano) Manifiesto Barcelona por la Paz
Fundación Carta de la Paz – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Sep 2012
21 de septiembre 2012 – Día Internacional de la Paz. Con motivo del Ier Congreso Internacional Edificar la Paz en el siglo XXI celebrado en Barcelona los días 23, 24 y 25 de abril del 2012, el Comité Científico, recogiendo las aportaciones, las comunicaciones y las ponencias que se han presentado y los trabajos precongresuales, da a conocer el siguiente Manifiesto:
→ read full articleA Marriage of Morons: Romney and Netanyahu
Uri Avnery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Sep 2012
Perhaps the United Morons of America have a right to elect Mitt Romney president. But for the sake of the US and Israel, I hope that this will not happen. Some people say that Israel is the 51st state of the Union. Some say that it is the first among the 51. Whatever, our lives – and perhaps our deaths – depend to a great extent on the man in the White House.
→ read full articleFufu Momo and Kottu
Udaya R. Tennakoon – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Sep 2012
Noises of different tongues
Occupying stoves in the kitchen
It is not belonged to any one
But belonged to a time
Respect Indians and Indian Democracy
People’s Movement Against Nuclear Energy – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Sep 2012
The ruling establishment’s message is loud and clear. “We do not give a damn about the Indian citizens, their democratic and nonviolent opposition to harmful policies and projects and the very democratic heritage of our country. We will put the interests of foreign countries and their MNCs ahead of the wishes and wellbeing of the Indian citizens.”
→ read full articleBorn Free and Equal
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Sep 2012
The UN Human Rights Office has released a new publication on sexual orientation and gender identity in international human rights law. It sets out the source and scope of some of the core legal obligations that States have to protect the human rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) people.
→ read full articleRole of Governments in Promoting Peace
Charles Mercieca, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Sep 2012
Governments of all kinds seem to have at least one thing in common. They want to convince everyone that all their actions are performed in the best interest of their respective population. Of course, experience demonstrates that this is not necessarily true in any way whatsoever.
→ read full articleThe Real Battle Is Against U.S. Imperialism
Socialist Worker – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Sep 2012
U.S. embassies and military bases in majority Muslim countries around the Middle East and North Africa have been the site of violent protests over a racist film, produced in the U.S. and distributed in various forms on the Internet, which slanders Islam.
→ read full articleThree Principles for Reconstructing the Economy
Howard Richards – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Sep 2012
First Principle: The needs of those who need to sell something to live (to sell either their labor or some other saleable item) usually exceed effective demand. There are more sellers than buyers. Therefore, in a green, responsible, plural and caring (or “solidarity”) economy there must be work (or some other source of livelihood) that does not depend on sales.
→ read full articleBritain Silent on Ecuador Assange Proposal
The Australian, AAP – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Sep 2012
Britain’s Foreign Office is tightlipped over a proposal from Ecuador that WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange be transferred from London to Sweden but stay under Quito’s protection. Ecuador’s Foreign Minister Ricardo Patino said on Saturday [22 Sep 2012] he was weighing such a transfer as a possible alternative for Assange to “remain under our protection while also satisfying the demands of the Swedish justice system”.
→ read full articleA Global Plea for Spiritual Dignity
Francisco Gomes de Matos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Sep 2012
Rhymed Reflections
When religious/spiritual systems are communicatively disrespected and violated
Universal spiritual dignity is not only being infected but literally decimated
AP Sources: US to Take Iran Group Off Terror List
Bradley Klapper and Matthew Lee, Associated Press – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Sep 2012
The decision to remove the MEK list rested on two factors: whether it still had the capacity and intent to commit acts of terror. Several American military officials and defense contractors were killed by the MEK in the 1970s, U.S. officials maintain, and its attacks have killed hundreds of Iranians.
→ read full articleFrance Says No to Genetically Modified Crops, No to Fracking
Common Dreams – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Sep 2012
France will maintain its ban on genetically modified crops [GMOs] and will ban fracking, politicians announced during an environmental conference held in Paris Friday and Saturday [Sep 14-15, 2012].
→ read full articleLetter to Citizens of Australia by the Koodankulam Children
People’s Movement Against Nuclear Energy – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Sep 2012
Now we hear that The Honorable Prime Minister of Australia, Ms. Julia Gillard, has agreed to sell Uranium to India and visit our country. While we welcome Ms. Gillard to India at any time, we would very much like to request her government and the people of Australia not to sell Uranium to India, to facilitate nuclear arms race among India, Pakistan and China, make South Asia even more dangerous and spoil the futures of us, the children of India and other countries.
→ read full articleMonsanto Corn Causes Tumors, Organ Damage in Rats
Ben Hirschler and Kate Kelland, Reuters – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Sep 2012
Paris Asks Health Body to Investigate French Study Findings – In a study that prompted sharp criticism from other experts, French scientists said on Wednesday [19 Sep 2012] that rats fed on Monsanto’s genetically modified corn or exposed to its top-selling weedkiller suffered tumours and multiple organ damage.
→ read full article‘Planetary Emergency’: New Data Elevates Climate Change Alarm
Common Dreams – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Sep 2012
Drawing on new data on the rate of melting arctic ice released Wednesday [19 Sep 2012] by the National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC), leading scientific experts and environmental campaigners upped the level of alarm and issued a renewed call to action by calling the growing reality of climate change a “planetary emergency”.
→ read full articleIn Quebec It’s Official: Mass Movement Leads to Victory for Students
Common Dreams – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Sep 2012
Naomi Klein: ‘This is why radical movements are mercilessly mocked. They can win.’
→ read full article
Origins of Israel Palestinian Conflict
CaspianReport – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Sep 2012
The Israeli Arab conflict is the result of interactions of superpowers in the early 20th century. British and French strategic interests in the Middle East were related to the Mediterranean trading route, which went from the Suez channel to Indian markets. But the presence of the Ottoman navy based in the Levant was a direct threat to British interests. So the British and the French decided to divide the Middle East into smaller entities and countries to make it impossible for the Ottoman Empire to control them all. A century later, the legacy of European colonization of the Arab world is reflected by its many ongoing conflicts.
→ read full articleA Significant Leap in Indo-Pak Relations
Debidatta Aurobinda Mahapatra – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Sep 2012
Confidence building measures play a significant role towards addressing contentious issues between the nations. This well practiced rule of conduct among nations can be no less than accurate in the context of India and Pakistan, which have fought four wars since their independence.
→ read full articleA Day of Peace: For the Americas
Johan Galtung, 24 Sep 2012 - TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Sep 2012
Straight to the key problem in the theory and practice of peace: Are we thinking of the negative peace of cease-fire and no violence (as distinct from nonviolence), or are we thinking of the positive peace of cooperation for mutual and equal benefit, empathy for emotional harmony, reconciliation of past traumas, and resolution capacity for an endless agenda of future conflicts? Are we thinking of using nonviolence? Or of persuading, or forcing, those with serious grievances to lay down their arms and reintegrate peacefully in civilian life?
→ read full articleEvening Hunger
Udaya R. Tennakoon – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Sep 2012
When hunger came
I went to the kitchen
Cooked rice
Made a soup of chicken
Captive of the Taliban
Russia Today – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Sep 2012
Jere Van Dyk, an author, Taliban expert, former TV correspondent and ex-captive of the Taliban offers a unique perspective on the roots of the conflict in Afghanistan and Central Asia. He believes the Afghan and Pashtun peoples/cultures/histories/goals are poorly understood in the West (if at all). The Taliban do not accept the Durand Line drawn in 1893 by the British, which arbitrarily divided their Pashtun ancestral lands to artificially create the border between Pakistan and Afghanistan.
→ read full articleThe Conditions for Human Health and Well Being Reside within the Psychosocial Contexts of Life
Anthony J. Marsella – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Sep 2012
As our concern for human health and well being grows with each day, we too often find ourselves seeking solutions within the limitations of our health-care system. We call for more medical services, lower medical costs, more health professionals, better medical technologies, improvements in medical records, greater accessibility and acceptability of health care, and more and more committees, evaluations, and reports to determine why the system is failing for the elderly, poor, minorities, veterans, and youth.
→ read full articleJulian Assange to Receive Aboriginal Passport
GreenLeft – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Sep 2012
This Association has worked with the Sydney Support Assange and WikiLeaks Coalition to arrange for Julian Assange to be issued an Aboriginal Nations Passport that his father, John Shipton, will accept on his behalf at The Settlement on 15 September, 2012. The issuing of an Aboriginal Passport to Julian Assange brings further shame on the Australian government. It recognises that Assange’s Australian passport has been completely worthless to him.”
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